Bye Bye Brazil (1979)

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Release Date: Sep 26, 1980 Wide

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Bye Bye Brazil, the gifted director Carlos Diegues' follow-up to his 1978 Xica da Silva, became one of the most popular and fiscally successful imports of late '70s and early '80s South American cinema. Bye Bye is a muted and low-key ensemble drama about a shabby circus crawling from small town to small town through the Brazilian backwaters. As the curtain rises before us, the circus claims three participants: the slightly scary, medicine-show-like leader, Lorde Cigano (Jose Wilker), who sports

R, 1 hr. 55 min.

Drama, Art House & International, Comedy

Directed By: Carlos Diegues

Written By: Carlos Diegues, Leopoldo Serran

In Theaters: Sep 26, 1980 Wide

On DVD: Apr 17, 2007

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Cast

Jos� Wilker
Lorde Cigano
Betty Faria
Salome
F�bio J�nior
Cico
Zaira Zambelli
Dasdo
Prinicipe Nabor
Swallow
Emmanoel Cavalcanti
Mayor
Jofre Soares
Ze da Luz
Rodolfo Arena
Peasant
Catalina Bonaki
Widow
Rinaldo Gines
Indian Chief
Carlos Kroeber
Driver
Jose Maria Lima
Assistant
Oscar Reis
Smuggler
Marcos Vinicius
Gent
Marieta Severo
Social Worker

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Bye Bye Brazil, hellooooo indifferent DVD transfer.

May 6, 2007 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine

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Fernando F. Croce

Slant Magazine

The title suggests closure, yet the film locates a nation very much still in the process of getting to know itself.

May 6, 2007 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine

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This is actually such a bizarre and one of a kind experience that I honestly can't say it's bad. This has some accidentally amazing qualities. The aftershock of American pop culture seeping through the soundtrack is extremely goofy and cheesy, but it totally made me love watching it. Visually it's great and the

April 25, 2011

Conner Rainwater

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a strange and curious movie from the seventies in which brazil and its people are another character as we follow a travelling troop of odd performers as they travel around brazil, it reminded me of the fellini movie with his wife and anthony quinn as the strongman travelling around italy, same thing here only italiy is now brazil.

September 24, 2011